Human Rights
China’s Appetite for Soy Is Turning Brazil’s Amazon into a Shantytown
Over the last 40 years, the north of the state of Mato Grosso has ...
Brazil Prisons: Where the Criminals Are the Ones Running the Show
The prison population throughout Latin America has been growing steadily for the past few ...
How the Press Joined Conservatives to Keep Illegal Slave Trade Alive in Brazil
The negative influence of the Brazilian press on the illegal slave trade is analyzed ...
Brazil: The Day the Munduruku Found Out the Police Were Not Their Friend
The Tapajós River Basin lies at the heart of the Amazon, and at the ...
A Few Examples of How Societal Fascism Is Alive and Well in Brazil
In 1940 Walter Benjamin wrote his Theses on the Concept of History prompted by ...
Brazil’s Prison Riot: The Unspeakable Pain of Burying Your Beheaded Child
The prison massacre in Alcaçuz Penitentiary on January 14, which killed at least 26 ...
For Brazilian Indians the Bad from Rousseff’s Era Has Become Worse
In addition to being a politician and a constitutionalist lawyer, President Michel Temer is ...
Inter-American Court Rules Against Slave Work in Brazil
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has welcomed a call from the International Labor ...
Human Rights Watch Blames Brazil’s Prison Overcrowding on Country’s Anti-Drug Law
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticized Brazil’s prison overcrowding problem in its World Report ...
Dozens Killed in Brazil’s Worst Prison Massacre in Two Decades
A prison riot has left at least 56 dead, with decapitated bodies thrown over ...
